The encounter was one of a series of Saturday jubilee audiences of 2025, following a first meeting with pilgrims and a ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or ...

Pope Francis reaffirms Catholic Church's willingness to accept a common date for Easter in the West and East, highlighting ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

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The computer … has become a way of going through the streets of the world, like the first disciples ... public viewing of the tomb. Acutis had brain hemorrhaging at the time of his death, and he ...

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The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ...